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    puffnfresh avatar puffnfresh 4 years ago | link | on: What are good small practice projects every programmer needs to do?

    Implementing data structures in terms of Church encodings (i.e. catamorphisms or the eliminators). Here is an example using the Option type:

    https://gist.github.com/debasishg/1059864

    Here is an example of the List type:

    https://gist.github.com/debasishg/1059896

    The point is that data structures become just their catamorphism function. Data structures are functions! How awesome is that?

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      mrb avatar mrb 4 years ago | link

      Very awesome! Thanks for sharing.

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      mrb avatar mrb 4 years ago | link | on: React: Another Level of Indirection

      This really helped me grasp what is so cool about React, recommended.